| CD REVIEW Civet |
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Band: Civet When they released ‘Hell Hath No Fury’ in 2008, I immediately new that this all-girl band could be (or become) what any girl in the punk rock scene needed, to prove that you don’t have to have a dick to be in a good band. Two years later, the all-girl band has now become a female fronted band, as sisters Liza Graves and Suzi Carmichael decided (mid-tour) to no longer continue with the other members of the band. Still, apart from the line-up, nothing else has changed much on ‘Love & War’. The raspy, gritty vocals of Liza still reminds me of Brody Dalle (before she went soft with Spinerette and was still rocking the mic with Distillers) and the musical structure still has the same typical sound. There are a couple of songs on the album that stand out. There’s “LA Nights’, which is pretty much my favorite song on the track, just because of the sound of Liza’s voice on this one. Her snarl is so well placed on this one and musically everything sounds just right, every riff, every drum roll, every bass line and the perfect sing along chorus… Everything’s so in place! Another one of my favorites is the next song on the album, “Come on (I Wanna Be Your Girl)”, if maybe just for the fact, that I can perfectly find myself in the lyrics (which is basically a ‘what happens on the road, stays on the road’ story). The third song on the record I really like is “You Get What You Pay For”, a punk rock song with a country feel to it. It’s totally different than the rest of the songs on ‘Love & War’, but maybe that’s what appeals to me, the guts to take stray away from the mapped path. The rest of the album contains more than decent punk rock songs, and after some spins on the record player, the tunes and lyrics really stick! Magaly. |